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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who hold that matters of this sort are not worthy to be discussed in the columns of a newspaper--still faut laver son linge sale en famille." Francis Bigelow Moore...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...last week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...En route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
...Hyde loyally sided with her husband. In 1915 she bore him a son, in 1917 a daughter. In 1920 she divorced him for "cruelty and violence." Last week when Dr. Hyde dropped dead. Mrs. Hyde and her grown children were en route to Seattle for a vacation...